Hugo Black Quotes
It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.
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I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
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My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
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With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!
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You are a spirit, then,you Man, and not a Manat all.You are a spirit and you dwellwithin the guts of mortal beast.
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She's so young and so impressionable. There's an innocence and a vulnerability that you almost can't really manufacture. It's like a look in the eye that a young girl has that a 23-year-old doesn't.
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When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to which every man can look and with which he can compare what he in fact enjoys. The fact that no country was prepared to vote against the Declaration indicates its compelling moral force.
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Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.
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I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.
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It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
